Game copy devices now illegal in France.

[Kasz216]

spurgeonryan said:

Kasz216 said:

Pirating doesn't hurt software sales.

It increases hardware sales.

I mean, I know tons of people who bought the PSP specifically because of piracy/hackability to use as a portable emulator.

 

PS3 seems to have suffered vs 360 in a lot of areas due to the non-piratability of the PS despite Playstation literally being a synonym for game console in a lot of areas that had shitty nintendo distribution in the 8 and 16 bit eras.

I know what you said seems to be the case for the music industry so I am sure that is probably the case for the gaming industry as well.

Either I will download music I hear online, which makes them money, or I just go out and end up getting the CD if there are enough good songs on there.

In the Wallstreet journal way back when the Ipod first came out and was big... they ran a study to see how much worse it would sell if they tweaked the Ipod to only accept propritary music files so that piracy would be much harder.

The results were not good.

Which is amusing now that Apple complains about how much piracy is "costing" them in the Ap store because they want jailbreaking to be illegal.